Today is the fourth federally recognized Juneteenth Celebration in the United States. On June 19, 1865, the American Civil War was over but news finally reached slaves in Galveston, Texas. President ...

Visitors milled about Gary City Hall grounds Saturday for the city’s second annual Juneteenth Freedom Festival celebration. A DJ and musical entertainers, a poet and dance performances by students of ...

Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865. It became a federal holiday in 2021, signed into law by President Biden. Celebrations originated in 1866 and ...

An enlarged photo copy of Gen. Gordon Granger's announcement that slaves were freed, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, is displayed next to the original copy of the order the by The ...

This story was originally published by The Conversation and is republished here by permission. The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19, marks the end of slavery in ...

This weekend will see several area celebrations for Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the emancipation of the final American slaves on June 19, 1865, when the Union Army established control of Texas ...

Enslaved people already had been freed two-and-a-half years earlier, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, according to PBS. So freedom arrived on June ...

Celebrate Juneteenth around D.C. with festivals, history and family-friendly gatherings. The big picture: Juneteenth — a new federal holiday marking the 1865 emancipation of enslaved people in Texas — ...

Americans are celebrating Juneteenth on June 19, marking the day when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The man who is behind the creation of Juneteenth is actually buried in Kentucky. United States Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger is the Union leader who read the order in Galveston, Texas, ...